Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

I used to get canvassers on the doorstep.

I haven't seen any for quite a few years.

Don't know why, really.

Leaflets don't tell you much. The candidates keep a low profile. It does not inspire me with confidence in any party, really.

The incumbent MP, whom I've never voted for, I once had the chance to speak to at a very local event. He started speaking to me, not the other way around. While I was replying, his eyes were scanning the horizon, for who next to speak to, I suppose. I thought, 'thanks a bunch; if you can't even pretend to be interested in what I'm saying, when you started the conversation, you will never get my vote, even if I were imclined towards your party.
If basic courtesies towards your constituents aren't part of your repertoire, what else might be missing?'

PasturesNew

Wide Awake Club.

Been up for about 20 minutes now. I know I woke up having a vivid dream, but I can't remember what it was about.

I feel quite groggy and wonder if it's because I bought/ate some choccies earlier... quite a few choccies, probably about 100 grams.

Sitting here with a coffee now.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've got a hedgehog!

I'd spotted a bit of a biggish poo in the garden about 2 weeks ago and googled - to check it wasn't furries.... and one popular suggestion was that it was hedgehog poo.

I was just outside in the garden, which is groundlit from one corner by some solar lights and I had another house light on shedding a little light from one side window... I was crouched down the side of my house having a crafty cig and I heard a slight noise - and saw him scuttling past. When I'd stepped outside he must've been to my left ... and I'd turned right. It was fully grown and definitely a hedgie, not a furry!

Oh that's lovely!
I've never had a hedgehog in my garden!

ivyleaf

PasturesNew wrote: »

I should change it really. Before my life was turned upside down a few years ago, I'd entertained the idea of making jewellery and had attended several/many workshops, courses and residential workshops in metal working.

The photo is: a piece of copper, about 1½" high and 1/2" wide, hand hammered, drilled then polished ... henceforth called "a pendant"

One of the intentions of my extension is to take it up again as I'll have "a spare bit of space/a room/an empty area that can be used for all sorts of random activities" ... and that's one of them. I can also put bowls of acid out there (etching) ... and run a stone tumbler.... and use the big sink for washing things ... and store everything so I can see what I've got, set stuff out on a table drying/whatever ... and still be able to walk away into another room and forget the mess I've just made.

Although I do need another drill ... and some different drill bits. I want some 1mm and 2mm drill bits and some diamond tipped ones.

So I was completely wrong! but it's really pretty

And just seen your post about the hedgehog. How lovely! There are far fewer of them around these days. I remember we had a couple in our garden years ago. We used to put cat food out for them.

Pyxis

And Pastures, I'm sorry....... I didn't mean to imply that you were a computer ingenue.
Obviously you aren't. I just thought that there might be someone at one of those places who would be willing to talk you through a new OS on a new computer, etc.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

It was a further education/new Uni, with facilities for very advanced skills and requirements to make full blown graduate/post-graduate "arty farty" pieces of ginormous proportions.

There was a wall of three of them. Big metal cubicle/cabinets. Bucket of water by your foot to drop hot things into.
Looked like it was built in the 1980s! Big, metal, robust, last a lifetime jobbie.

When you started the flame, it shot out like a flameflower to about 2' long - and you then had to twist some controls to make it smaller and the right sort of flame that you needed.... needless to say, that's not the easiest of things to do when you're still scraping yourself off the ceiling.

I bet if you were blacksmithing you could shoe a horse with something made in that!


Yes, the acid is only very very very very weak... but I dislike the idea of any at all ... and there's the fear of dropping a bit and it eating through your favourite jumper, even though you're not actually wearing a "good one" and you've got an overall on

Vinegar and lemon juice are both acidic. Slightly. Can you use something very safe like that and just accept it takes say a month to do what something a bit stronger would do in an hour?

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Vinegar and lemon juice are both acidic. Slightly. Can you use something very safe like that and just accept it takes say a month to do what something a bit stronger would do in an hour?

Yes, vinegar/lemon are the way forward with it.
It doesn't take a month, more like 1-3 hours rather than 10-15 minutes

LydiaJ

Where is everyone? More than 24hours with no posts on the NPT????

Weather lovely here today. Am sitting in the conservatory enjoying it. Even without direct sunlight on the laptop screen I can only just see what I'm typing, but it's worth it.

chris_m

Well, I've been perched on a ladder, putting a new roof on my workshop.
I'd been waiting for ages for a forecasted spell with no rain and, more importantly since I'm using 2.4m x 0.6m corrugated polycarbonate sheets, no wind. Today was perfect.

If I'd tried over the last few days I reckon I'd have been fetching the roofing sheets back from t'next village:rotfl:

michaels

LydiaJ wrote: »

Where is everyone? More than 24hours with no posts on the NPT????

Weather lovely here today. Am sitting in the conservatory enjoying it. Even without direct sunlight on the laptop screen I can only just see what I'm typing, but it's worth it.

Finally brightened up after lunch after a week of dull days but even then the car thermometer was still saying 9 degrees <cold smiley>

We are doing SATS revision, year 8 homework, cooking for 3 German students, etc etc.